The document discusses the major Hollywood film studios known as "The Big Six" and analyzes which would be the best fit to distribute the film "Glass Jaw". It examines the types of films each studio typically produces and finds that Columbia Pictures would be the most suitable choice as they have experience with thriller genre films similar to "Glass Jaw".

1. What Kind of Media Institution
Might Distribute Your Media
Product?

2. The Big Six
• There are a group of distribution companies
that are grouped together and called ‘The Big
Six’
• These are the major companies in Hollywood
that produce and distribute the bigger films in
America

3. Who Are They?
Clockwise from
top left:
20th Century Fox
Warner Brothers
Columbia
Universal
Walt Disney
Paramount

4. What Kind Of Films Do They All
Produce? – 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox are famous for many popular franchises
such as: Star Wars, X-Men, Ice Age, Die Hard, Predator,
Planet of the Apes and Home Alone. These are quite
varied in their content and range from kids films (Ice
Age, Home Alone) to more adult action films (Predator,
Die Hard).

5. Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers produce a multitude of films
each year in a variety of genres, but generally
lean toward the funnier, more dramatic
genres. There aren’t many thriller/horror films
produced but there are the odd few. This
would not be a suitable company to showcase
our film.

6. Columbia
Columbia tend to make a lot more thriller type
films than the other studios and this would be
a good match for our film, due to the fact
there’s much more of an overall link between
the company and our films content.

7. Universal
Universal’s films again, like all of these
companies, span an entire range of genres,
but these films are much more spread out
with almost equal distribution. Universal
would be an okay company to distribute our
film.

8. Walt Disney Pictures
The majority of Walt Disney Pictures' films are
aimed at children and animated, with no
other types of films. This wouldn’t fit with our
film due to extremely contrasting style
between our film and Disney’s repertoire.

9. Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures’ output generally tends to
the more fantastical and comedic genres of
film, with rare cases of crime thrillers. Glass
Jaw would not fit in with these other films and
Paramount is therefore not a good fit.

10. Possible Companies
• Universal
• Columbia
There are two companies that have an
acceptable link between their previous films
contents and Glass Jaw’s content and since
they’ve produced many thriller films
beforehand they shall know how to market
the film.

11. Final Choice
My final choice for the most suitable company
would be Columbia pictures since Glass Jaw is
much more in the vein of films they’ve
produced at times than the rest of the Big Six.